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11 September 2019

1789 – Further encounters

May 1789 All goes quiet on this front, for six or seven years, before further references to the Carters’ battery of cannon appear in the Penzance […]
11 September 2019

1781 – The first mentions

Reference to Carters’ battery first appears in official correspondence in the early 1780s but surprisingly there is not a single mention of it at this time […]
10 September 2019

The Carters of Prussia’s Cove

The Carter Brothers, possibly the most notorious of Cornish smugglers, were raised in the vicinity of Prussia’s Cove, in the second half of the eighteenth century. […]
31 August 2019

The Carter brothers of Prussia’s Cove

The Carter brothers were possible the best-known and notorious Cornish smugglers of the second half of the C18. There were seven of them. Thomas Carter Born […]
31 August 2019

The Guns of Prussia’s Cove

The Guns of Prussia’s Cove or the Carters’ Battery The late C18 was a turbulent time. Bays and anchorages on the coast of England, remote from central […]
30 August 2019

Penzance registered luggers and MFVs

We are fortunate that a large collection of historic photographs exist showing some of the luggers and motor fishing vessels registered in Penzance and fishing both […]
30 August 2019

A Guide to Fish Measures and Terms

Maunds, Pads, Hogsheads and Hundreds I first wrote this guide for the South West Maritime History Society, back in 1995. However, the it seemed right to […]
28 August 2019

PZ.486 Auld-Lang-Syne

Auld-Lang-Syne – PZ.486 : 1891-1928. Built at Porthleven in 1891, by an unidentified builder (most likely by Kitto or Bowden), the Auld-Lang-Syne was a first class […]
27 August 2019

PZ.132 Swan

Swan 132.PZ : >1869-1887; Swan PZ.132: 1887-1895 The Swan was one of the immense fleet of Mount’s Bay luggers in existence before the introduction of the […]
11 September 2019

1789 – Further encounters

May 1789 All goes quiet on this front, for six or seven years, before further references to the Carters’ battery of cannon appear in the Penzance […]
11 September 2019

1781 – The first mentions

Reference to Carters’ battery first appears in official correspondence in the early 1780s but surprisingly there is not a single mention of it at this time […]
10 September 2019

The Carters of Prussia’s Cove

The Carter Brothers, possibly the most notorious of Cornish smugglers, were raised in the vicinity of Prussia’s Cove, in the second half of the eighteenth century. […]
31 August 2019

The Carter brothers of Prussia’s Cove

The Carter brothers were possible the best-known and notorious Cornish smugglers of the second half of the C18. There were seven of them. Thomas Carter Born […]
31 August 2019

The Guns of Prussia’s Cove

The Guns of Prussia’s Cove or the Carters’ Battery The late C18 was a turbulent time. Bays and anchorages on the coast of England, remote from central […]
30 August 2019

A Guide to Fish Measures and Terms

Maunds, Pads, Hogsheads and Hundreds I first wrote this guide for the South West Maritime History Society, back in 1995. However, the it seemed right to […]
28 August 2019

PZ.486 Auld-Lang-Syne

Auld-Lang-Syne – PZ.486 : 1891-1928. Built at Porthleven in 1891, by an unidentified builder (most likely by Kitto or Bowden), the Auld-Lang-Syne was a first class […]
27 August 2019

PZ.132 Swan

Swan 132.PZ : >1869-1887; Swan PZ.132: 1887-1895 The Swan was one of the immense fleet of Mount’s Bay luggers in existence before the introduction of the […]